Welcome back to the Ancient Health Podcast where we educate you on real health solutions that will

help transform the way you live, feel, and overcome disease naturally. I'm your host Courtney Burcage along with Dr.

Josh Axe and Dr. Chris Motley. We're so happy you've joined us. Let's dive into

today's episode.

Hey friends, Dr. Motley here with the Ancient Health Podcast, and today let's talk about how our

emotions can create physical pain in the body.

Can the way we think? Can our psychology result in physical pain? Yes, it

definitely can. And we have to remember in psychology today they talk about how our bodies are physical expressions of what we think.

We can go down the route of how our thoughts become belief patterns and our belief patterns direct our daily life.

So when we get into a car, we believe that the car has the ability to take us to school or take us to work. We create patterns of normal everyday

activity, repetitive patterns that get ingrained in our brain and we follow

those patterns without thinking about them.

What I'm saying is that even the way we turn the steering wheel

how much pressure we put on the gas pedal, what direction we take after we get to the

first stoplight.

Those are physical reactions or physical expressions of what's going on in our brain.

Can the same thing happen with pain? Can pain be an expression of what we're thinking?

So in Chinese medicine, we talk about how we have the main organ systems, the meridian.

There's 12 meridian pathways and they're on each side of the body.

Now, these pathways, you've seen me do this. and they're on each side of the body.

Now, these pathways, you've seen me do this before,

but the pathways called meridians are like maps.

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